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Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2018
Listing for 193 records from 2018 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.
A+
The Daisy Age
[Koko]
A
Cardi B
:
Invasion of Privacy
[Atlantic]
Black Thought & Salaam Remi
:
Streams of Thought Vol. 2
[Human Re Sources/Passyunk Productions EP]
Hamell on Trial
:
The Night Guy at the Apocalypse: Profiles of a Rushing Midnight
[Saustex]
Rich Krueger
:
Life Ain't That Long
[Rockink]
Rich Krueger
:
NOWThen
[Rockink]
Bettye Lavette
:
Things Have Changed
[Verve]
Mast
:
Thelonious Sphere Monk
[World Galaxy/Alpha Pup]
Mount Eerie
:
Now Only
[P.W. Elverum & Sun]
Maria Muldaur
:
Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker
[Last]
Willie Nelson
:
Last Man Standing
[Legacy]
Noname
:
Room 25
[self-released]
The Paranoid Style
:
Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall + 3
[Bar/None]
Parquet Courts
:
Wide Awaaaaake!
[Rough Trade]
Pistol Annies
:
Interstate Gospel
[RCA]
Pusha T
:
Daytona
[G.O.O.D. Music EP]
Bruce Springsteen
:
Springsteen on Broadway
[Columbia]
Superchunk
:
What a Time to Be Alive
[Merge]
Tierra Whack
:
Whack World
[self-released EP]
Black Panther: The Album
[TDE/Aftermath/Interscope]
A-
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
:
Simigwa
[Mr Bongo]
Bali Baby
:
Baylor Swift
[Twin]
Courtney Barnett
:
Tell Me How You Really Feel
[Mom + Pop]
Mandy Barnett
:
Strange Conversation
[Dame Productions/Thirty Tigers]
6lack
:
East Atlanta Love Letter
[LVRN/Interscope]
Black Thought
:
Streams of Thought Vol. 1
[Human Re Sources EP]
Car Seat Headrest
:
Twin Fantasy
[Matador]
Chicago Farmer
:
Quarter Past Tonight
[chicagofarmer.com]
Tyler Childers
:
Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
[Thirty Tigers/Hickman Holler]
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba
:
Routes
[Twelve Eight]
Ry Cooder
:
The Prodigal Son
[Fantasy]
Frankie Cosmos
:
Vessel
[Sub Pop]
The Coup
:
Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack
[Interscope]
Cupcakke
:
Ephorize
[Bigger Picture]
Doctor Nativo
:
Guatemaya
[Stonetree]
Open Mike Eagle
:
What Happens When I Try to Relax
[Auto Reverse]
Etran de l'Air
:
No. 1
[Sahel Sounds]
The Ex
:
27 Passports
[Ex]
Lupe Fiasco
:
Drogas Wave
[1st & 15th]
Ezra Furman
:
Transangelic Exodus
[Bella Union]
Mary Gauthier
:
Rifles and Rosary Beads
[In the Black]
The Goon Sax
:
We're Not Talking
[Wichita Recordings]
Ariana Grande
:
Sweetener
[Republic]
Harriett Tubman
:
The Terror End of Beauty
[Sunnyside]
Jon Hassell
:
Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)
[Ndeya]
Hinds
:
I Don't Run
[Mom + Pop]
Idles
:
Joy as an Act of Resistance
[Partisan]
Imarhan
:
Temet
[City Slang]
The Internet
:
Hive Mind
[Columbia]
Joan Jett
:
Bad Reputation
[Blackheart]
Oumar Konaté
:
I Love You Inna
[Clermont Music]
John Kruth & La Società del Musici
:
Forever Ago
[Ars Spoleteum]
Leikeli47
:
Acrylic
[Hardcover/RCA]
Jinx Lennon
:
Grow a Pair!!!
[Septic Tiger]
Lyrics Born
:
Quite a Life
[Mobile Home]
Sho Madjozi
:
Limpopo Champions League
[Flourish and Multiply]
Amber Mark
:
Conexao EP
[Virgin EMI EP]
Wynton Marsalis Septet
:
United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas
[Blue Engine]
The Mekons 77
:
It Is Twice Blessed
[Slow Things]
Nicki Minaj
:
Queen
[Young Money/Cash Money/Republic]
Mitski
:
Be the Cowboy
[Dead Oceans]
Janelle Monáe
:
Dirty Computer
[Atlantic]
No Age
:
Snares Like a Haircut
[Drag City]
John Prine
:
The Tree of Forgiveness
[Oh Boy]
Amy Rigby
:
The Old Guys
[Southern Domestic]
Riton & Kah-Lo
:
Foreign Ororo
[Last Gang]
Saba
:
Care for Me
[Saba Pivot]
Homeboy Sandman & Edan
:
Humble Pi
[Stones Throw]
Hama Sankare
:
Ballébé
[Clermont Music]
Serengeti
:
Dennis 6e
[People]
Amanda Shires
:
To the Sunset
[Silver Knife]
Shopping
:
The Official Body
[Fat Cat]
Paul Simon
:
In the Blue Light
[Legacy]
Elza Soares
:
Deus É Mulher
[Deck]
Soccer Mommy
:
Clean
[Fat Possum]
Sons of Kemet
:
Your Queen Is a Reptile
[Impulse]
Sophie
:
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
[Transgressive/Future Classic]
Speedy Ortiz
:
Twerp Verse
[Carpark]
Superorganism
:
Superorganism
[Domino]
Tal National
:
Tantabara
[Fat Cat]
Tracey Thorn
:
Record
[Merge]
Tropical Fuck Storm
:
A Laughing Death in Meatspace
[Tropical Fuck Storm/Mistletone]
tUnE-yArDs
:
I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
[4AD]
Becky Warren
:
Undesirable
[self-released]
Kanye West and Kid Cudi
:
Kids See Ghosts
[G.O.O.D. Music EP]
Wreckless Eric
:
Construction Time & Demolition
[Southern Domestic]
Wussy
:
Getting Better
[Shake It EP]
Wussy
:
What Heaven Is Like
[Shake It]
Yo La Tengo
:
There's a Riot Going On
[Matador]
I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits
[Piranha]
B+
American Aquarium
:
Things Change
[New West]
Bali Baby
:
Resurrection
[Twin]
Neko Case
:
Hell-On
[Anti-]
Eminem
:
Kamikaze
[Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath]
Slim Gaillard
:
Groove Juice: The Norman Granz Recordings
[Verve]
Clay Harper
:
Bleak Beauty
[self-released]
Jeffrey Lewis and the Deposit Returners
:
Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)
[Don Giovanni]
Mad Crush
:
Mad Crush
[Upon This Rock]
Ashley McBryde
:
Girl Going Nowhere
[Atlantic]
Lori McKenna
:
The Tree
[CN/Thirty Tigers]
Meek Mill
:
Championships
[Maybach Music Group]
Mr Eazi
:
Life Is Eazi--Vol. 2: Lagos to London
[Banku Music]
Kacey Musgraves
:
Golden Hour
[MCA Nashville]
Princess Nokia
:
A Girl Cried Red
[self-released EP]
Rolling Blackouts C.F.
:
Hope Downs
[Sub Pop]
Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s
[Legacy]
Two Niles: To Sing a Melody: The Violins and Synths of Sudan
[Ostinato]
***
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
:
Landfall
[Nonesuch]
The Beths
:
Future Me Hates Me
[Carpark]
Blood Orange
:
Negro Swan
[Domino]
Bombino
:
Deran
[Partisan]
Ceramic Dog
:
YRU Still Here?
[Northern Spy]
Cupcakke
:
Eden
[Cupcakke]
Czarface
:
Czarface Meets Metal Face
[Silver Age]
Qais Essar
:
The Ghost You Love Most
[self-released]
Marianne Faithfull
:
Negative Capability
[Panta Rei/BMG]
Flasher
:
Constant Image
[Domino]
Robbie Fulks/Linda Gail Lewis
:
Wild! Wild! Wild!
[Bloodshot]
Gift of Gab
:
Rejoice! Rappers Are Rapping Again!
[Giftstribution EP]
Diana Gordon
:
Pure
[self-released EP]
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris
:
Everything's Fine
[Mello Music]
Hop Along
:
Bark Your Head Off, Dog
[Saddle Creek]
George Jones & the Jones Boys
:
Live in Texas 1965
[Ace]
Khalid
:
Suncity
[RCA EP]
Kyle
:
Light of Mine
[Independently Popular/Atlantic]
Lil Wayne
:
Tha Carter V
[Young Money]
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
:
Sparkle Hard
[Matador]
Roc Marciano
:
RR2: The Bitter Dose
[Marci Enterprises]
Molly Tigre
:
Molly Tigre
[Very Special]
Mudhoney
:
Digital Garbage
[Sub Pop]
Grand Peeples and the Peeples Republik
:
Settling Scores Vol. II
[Gatorbone]
The Rails
:
There Are Other People in This World Not Just You
[Thirty Tigers]
Robyn
:
Honey
[Konichiwa/Interscope]
Sidi Touré
:
Toubalero
[Thrill Jockey]
Kali Uchis
:
Isolation
[Superbillion]
Kate Vargas
:
For the Wolfish and Wandering
[Kate Vargas]
Western Centuries
:
Songs From the Deluge
[Free Dirt]
**
Atmosphere
:
Mi Vida Local
[Rhymesayers]
Baloji
:
137 Avenue Kaniama
[Bella Union]
Brockhampton
:
Iridescence
[Question Everything/RCA]
Chris Butler
:
Got It Together!
[Smog Veil]
Chris Butler & Ralph Carney
:
Songs for Unsung Holidays
[Smog Veil]
Camp Cope
:
How to Socialise and Make Friends
[Run for Cover]
Brandi Carlile
:
By the Way, I Forgive You
[ATO]
Eric Church
:
Desperate Man
[EMI Nashville]
The Coathangers
:
Live
[Suicide Squeeze]
DJ Koze
:
Knock Knock
[Pampa]
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir
:
Keep Drinking
[Damnably]
Ebony Hillbillies
:
5 Miles From Town
[AW Music]
E-40
:
The Gift of Gab
[Heavy on the Grind]
Will Hoge
:
My American Dream
[Thirty Tigers/EDLO]
Jon Hopkins
:
Singularity
[Domino]
Low Cut Connie
:
Dirty Pictures (Part 2)
[Contender]
Mourning [A] Blkstar
:
The Garner Poems
[Electric Cowbell]
Nostrum Grocers
:
Nostrum Grocers
[Ruby Yacht/The Order]
RAM
:
August 1791
[Willibelle]
Ike Reilly
:
Crooked Love
[Rock Ridge Music]
Caroline Rose
:
Loner
[New West]
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
:
Years
[Bloodshot]
Sly and Robbie
:
Nordub: Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvaer Feat Elvind Aarset and Vladislav Delay
[Okeh]
Fred Thomas
:
Aftering
[Polyvinyl]
Weakened Friends
:
Common Blah
[Don Giovanni]
Young Fathers
:
Cocoa Sugar
[Ninja Tune]
*
Lily Allen
:
No Shame
[Warner Bros.]
Born Ruffians
:
Uncle, Duke and the Chief
[Yep Roc]
The Bottle Rockets
:
Bit Logic
[Bloodshot]
The Breeders
:
All Nerve
[4AD]
Marie Davidson
:
Working Class Woman
[Ninja Tune]
Epic Beard Men
:
Season 1
[Strange Famous]
Fat Tony
:
10,000 Hours
[Don Giovanni]
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
:
Black Times
[Strut]
Lala Lala
:
The Lamb
[Hardly Art]
Adrianne Lenker
:
Abysskiss
[Saddle Creek]
Walter Martin
:
Reminisce Bar & Grill
[Ile Flottante]
Medhane
:
Ba Suba, Ak Jamm
[Grand Closing]
Migos
:
Culture II
[QC/Motown/Capitol]
Ashley Monroe
:
Sparrow
[Warner Bros.]
Nas
:
Nasir
[G.O.O.D. Music EP]
Willie Nelson
:
My Way
[Legacy]
Okkervil River
:
In the Rainbow Rain
[ATO]
Primo!
:
Amici
[Polyester]
Public Service Broadcasting
:
Every Valley
[PIAS America]
Rae Sremmurd
:
SR3MM
[Eardrum/Interscope]
Allen Ravenstine
:
Waiting for the Bomb
[Morphius/MVD]
Marc Ribot
:
Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
[Anti-]
Derek Smalls
:
Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)
[Twanky/BMG]
Vince Staples
:
FM!
[Def Jam]
The Chandler Travis Three-O
:
Backward Crooked From the Sunset
[Iddy Biddy]
U.S. Girls
:
In a Poem Unlimited
[4AD]
Kanye West
:
Ye
[G.O.O.D. Music EP]
William Elliott Whitmore
:
Kilonova
[Bloodshot]
The Wood Brothers
:
One Drop of Truth
[Honey Jar]
1800 Seconds: Curated by Pusha T
[Mass Appeal]
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